Feed-wire connection.



PATBNTED JUNE 14, 1904.

G.L.osBQEN. EEE'D WIRE CONNECTION.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED* STATES Patented June 14, 1904.

vPATENT OFFICE.

FEED-WIRE CONNECTION.-

SPECIFIOATIQNforming partl of Patent No. 762,840, dated June 14, 1904.

Application 'filed September 2, 1902. Serial No. 121,778. `(No model.)

of the feed-wire and said soldering operations4 carried on separately without affecting cach other-as, for instance, the connection may be soldered to the rail and `subsequently the end of the feed-wiresoldered to the connection without detaching the previously-soldered joint; and the invention, furthermore, has for its object to construct a connection in such a manner that it isespecially designed to have the feed-wire soldered to itafter it hasvbeeu soldered to the rail.

Figure lshows'in side elevation a feed-wire connection embodying this invention, said figure also showing a portion of the feed-Wire and a cross-section of the rail. 1 Fig. 2 is a Vertical section of the feed-wire connection shown in'Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the feed-wire connection, and Fig. 4 is a plan view of the feed-wire connection.

a represents the rail, and b the feed-wire, which latter is herein represented as a stranded wire.

rail-engaging portion c, a cup c', adapted to receive the end of the feed-wire, and a neck l?, connecting the cup c with the rail-engaging portion c. The iiat rail-engaging portion is c', which receives the end of the feed-wire,

will be located a sufficient distance from the rail so thatthe heat applied to the cup when soldering `the end of the feed=wire to it will -not affect-the soldered connection ofthe railengagingplate with the rail. The feed-wire usually lemployed is the ordinary stranded wire, andthe strands thereof will be secured together by solder to present a solid currentcarrying .end portion either before or` after insertion in the cup. The neck c projects downwardly at approximately right angles to the rail-engaging plate c, and thereby holds the cup in vertical position to preventv spilling the solder when soldering lthe feed-wire and also to support the cup in a position whereby access to it may be easily obtained, for the purpose of heating it. 'The cup may have a lining c4 of solder.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters A feed-wire connection consisting of a flat rail-engaging plate adapted to be soldered to a rail, a downwardly-projectin g neck disposed at approximately right angles to saidplate, a cup for the end of the feed-wire formed at the lower end ofsaid neck on the side opposite the plate, substantially as described.

` In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name v to this specification in the presence of two The connection comprises, essentially, -a fiatA subscribing witnesses.

n GEORGE L. OSBORN. j Witnesses:

B. J. NoYEs, L. H. HARRI'MAN. 

